The Assimilation Model of modern human origins in light of current genetic and genomic knowledge

Quaternary International

Volumn 450, Issue , 2017, Pages 126-136

  Smith, Fred H ^a   Ahern, James C M ^b,c   Janković, Ivor ^b,c   Karavanić, Ivor ^b,d  

^a ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE FOR ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Croatia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Ancient DNA; Assimilation Model; Genomics; Modern human origins; Neandertals

Indexed keywords

ANCESTRY; DEMOGRAPHIC HISTORY; DNA; GENE FLOW; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; HUMAN EVOLUTION; NEANDERTHAL; PLEISTOCENE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GENETICS;

EURASIA;

EID: 84977622596     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2016.06.008     Document Type: Article

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